OBD and UEA develop breakthrough diagnostic test for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. First-in-class blood test for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome achieves high 96% accuracy. Offers hope as a reliable test, avoiding lengthy diagnosis delays and misdiagnosis. Oxford BioDynamics Plc, a precision clinical diagnostics company bringing specific and sensitive tests to the practice of medicine based on its […]
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The da Vinci 5 Robot Is Set To Transform Bariatric Care: Developed by Intuitive Surgical, the da Vinci 5 robotic surgery system is poised to transform bariatric services for patients and surgeons alike. It comes with over 150 design upgrades and 10,000 times the computing power of its predecessor (the da Vinci 4). Surgeons operate […]
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Effective digital healthcare depends on trust: Digital tools such as telehealth, remote monitoring and mobile health apps are key to transforming healthcare but trust in these new ways to provide care remains a stumbling block, University of Queensland researchers have found. In a comprehensive review, Dr Soraia de Camargo Catapan and Dr Jaimon Kelly from […]
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New national healthcare research hub for LAT’S: University of Liverpool, aims to position the UK as a world leader in the emerging global field of long-acting therapeutics (LATs). LATs are set to transform how we treat diseases and manage health conditions by replacing weeks or even months of pill taking with a single administered dose. […]
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2024 Nobel Prize Winners: The Physiological Society congratulates Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun on being awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. It was announced today that Professors Ambros and Ruvkun have been jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for their discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation. Responding to the […]
Making Medical Knowledge Accessible: Simplifying Healthcare Information for Better Patient Care: Healthcare is complex enough, finding the knowledge you need shouldn’t be. In a world where information is available at the click of a button, why do healthcare professionals struggle to access the medical knowledge they need at the point of care? A multitude of […]
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Studies to improve the way we monitor and test for lead poisoning in children and communicate data through sound have been awarded more than £1.1 million through a new funding scheme announced today. Northumbria is the only university in the north of England to have had two projects selected in a new UKRI pilot scheme […]
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In a groundbreaking discovery, a team of researchers from Queen’s University Belfast has successfully grown a mini version of human blood vessels from people with diabetes, in the lab. This breakthrough advances research of the disease by providing a new way for scientists to study how diabetes impacts blood vessels, potentially leading to the development […]
A pen which can transform Braille into English text has been developed by experts at the University of Bristol. Braille literacy is frequently reported as being in decline, this is despite visually impaired people often expressing a desire to learn it, and Braille literacy being a highly valued skill by those who are capable. This […]
Curtin University research to develop an early diagnosis tool predicting how cancer patients will respond to chemotherapy has received a funding boost of almost half a million dollars through the Innovation Seed Fund 2023-24. Led by Dr Yu Yu from Curtin Medical School and the Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute, the project seeks to create […]
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